ISIS Twitter Accounts Traced to… UK Government Computers

by Alec Cope

In a move that will surely conjure fumbled narratives and cheeky
excuses from the rouge British government, four young hackers have
traced at least three ISIS Twitter accounts to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), based out of London.

The
group calls themselves VandaSec traced several online-jihadi accounts
via their IP addresses (an IP address is an identification number for
computers of all types) at first, to Saudi Arabia. Later, upon deeper
digging the hackers unearthed information linking these accounts
directly to British government computers based out of the DWP.

Sure
enough after the news broke British officials responded by stating the
IP addresses were sold as part of a much larger ‘bulk sale’ to Saudi
Arabian based telecoms companies.

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